System of building construction



C. BOREL SYSTEM OF BUILDING CONSTRUCTION Nov.- 6

1922 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed April 20 INVENTOR Au ATTORNEY Nov. 6, 1923.1,473,418

' C. BOREL SYSTEM OF BUILDING CONSTRUCTION Filed April 20. 1922 3Sheets-Sheet 2 A ui & N I

4;; A TTORNE Y Nov. 6 1923 1,473,418

C. BOREL.

SYSTEM OF BUILDING CONSTRUCTION Filed April 20. 1922 s Sheets-Sheet sINV ENTOR A ATTORNEY formed along theiredges, one or more with cut-outportions or recesses 6, as shown in F'gure 5, and the said recesses willbe disprosed around the ed es of the plates according to the particu aruse thereof.

Those panels can be replaced by slabs of tile or tile-compositions, orby mats or meshes covered with stucco 0r plaster and supplied withproper means to fasten them to the frame-work.

In Figures 1 and 2, the numeral 7 indi cates a window opening and 8 adoor opening, which are made in similar manner, as by providing aframework or molding around the o-pening, -which may be removed at theproper time,and filling in with cement, wires or rods and sill and framemembers as presently described; and it is to be understood that infabricating the structure shown in Figures 1, 2 and 5, suitablescaffolding is employed.

As shown in Figures 1 and 2, the inside and outside wall surfaces aremade of plates, panels or slabs, such as shown in Figures 3 and 4:, oras described above, and between the same an insulating filling or lining9 is ap lied, the same being preferably of some lig t, loose, drymaterialwhichwill not fill in solidly, but will leave hollow spaces tobe occupied by air, the material being such as cinders, dry turf, ashes,or mineral or other fiber; At the top of the wall-plates or panels, acapping or layer of concrete or cement 10 is applied, in which may beburied a plurality of wires, rods or bars 11, for the purpose of givingtenacity, strength and re-' inforcement to the structure. These concreteor cement cappings run horizontally or sometimes slightly inclined, tothe wall or built-up structure between the inside and outside panels,and also between the uprights, posts or stanchions which are constructedas shown in Figures 2, 6 and 7. The said stanchions, posts or uprightsare formed, in the ordinary run of the wall, by first hooking togetherthe'inside and outside opposed slabs or plates, as shown in Figure 7, bya double hook or link 12, the hooks at the opposite ends of the linkstightly engaging the eyes 5 of the reinforcing wires or rods4: of theopposed panels or plates 1. These links 12, in, con- I sequence, occurin pairs at the vertical seams or'points of juncture 13, of the panelsor slates and'at the outside of the pairs of links, between the panelsor plates 1, vertical boards or slabs 14 of suitable'material are settightly against the eyes 5. At their lower ends, primarily, the slabs orboards 14 rest upon" the cement capping or layer 10, and, at theiropposite ends, terminate adjacent the inner edge of the inner groove ofthe respective plates. These members 5. 12 and 14: all form a permanentpart of the upright, post or stanchion at the juncthe slabs 14, the saidconcrete or filling being indicated at 16 in Figure 2. Those stanchions,uprights or posts may also be built of stones or bricks up to the inneredge of the inner groove and provided with the necessary means to fastenthe outside and inside panels, slabs, etc. At corners or right-angles inthe wall structure, such as shown at the opposite ends of the front wallof Figure 2 and in'the detail of Figure 6, opposed panels 1 withreinforcing wires or rods 4 havingterminal eyes 5 are connected byhooked links 12. On the inside of the wall-panels 1, reinforcing? rods 1and terminal eyes 5, are. abutted against the surface of the inner wallpanels. Outer wall panels indicated byl and provided with reinforcingwires or rods 17, formed in this instance with U-shaped eyes 18, areopposed to the inner panels 1, andthe hooked links 12' are engaged inthe eyes 5 and 18 to hold the inner and outer panels bers, as shown inFigure 6, a plurality of V reinforcing wires,'rods or bars 19 areinserted and then the concrete or cement shown in Figure '2 1s filledin, as at 20.

This forms a very substantial and strong coupling between cooperating orengaged walls and is readily fabricated; If an angle occurs, such asshown in Figure 2, in the end wall at the right of the figure, or isdesirable to be made in the wall, the inner and outer wall-plates 1, thelatter a little the wider, are abutted, and the inner and outer platesare linked togetherbythe hooks 12 and eyes 5, vertical rods 21 aresetin'place, and the entire structure is then solidified by filling inwithjcement 22.

If a door or window opening is'to be made or formed, as shown in Figures1, 2 and 8, the proper form-plates or molding are set in place andboards or'-slab's-14 are properly located, as shown in Figure 2, wires15 are inserted, the window ordoo'rf' frame, as the case may be, is setin place, the side members being ind cated at 23,

Figure 2, the sill at 24c, and the top ornate,

member 25, Figure 8. At the sidesof the frame, Figure 2, the spacesarefilled in with cement 26f" The sill and upper portion'of the framemay be formed as shown r in Figure 8. The: cement capping 10 with rodsll-is applied behind the sill 24'. The top ornate memberis set in placeand more or less embedded'in or incased by the cement capping orfilling10 with rods 11.

' lVith the foregoing structural members, practically any form of wallorsimilar fabricated structure with windows, doors or other openingsproperly incased, can be produced according to my method, which latter,as schematically portrayed in Figure 5, consists of thefollowing steps:

Assuming a'sca'fi'olding and proper mold structure to have been preparedand'set' up, but which, obviously, isomittedfrom the drawings on accountof the limitations thereof, and assuming that a portion of a wall hasbeen constructed composed of inside and outside wall pla'tes or panelsl,'tiles or mats, with filling of insulating material 9- and cappingcement 10 and reinforcing wires llrlaid in, the next step will be toplace the insideand outside wall-platesor panels '1 into position withthe-lower grooved edges thereof cooperating with and overlapping theupper grooved edges-of the'lowertier of plates. Then" the hooks 12 arelinked into theo'eyes'5 of the opposed-plates; slabs letare slid intoplace atopposite sides of the pairs of links wires, rods or bars'15i are'set in place and then the filling fiber or material 9 is filled intothe space between slabs-14 and wall-plates.+ Next the cement isfilledinto the space between the slabs 145 at the edges'of'the abutted panels1, and, when the top of the slabsis reached, the.

cement is spread. over and upon' the insulating filling=material 9, andthe longitudinal wires 11' are laid in, linked to gether with aplurality of hooks 12, and

more cement filled in until the horizontal 'wires a'nd hooks 12'holdingthe same are entirely covered and. embedded, as shown,

for example in "Figure 1. If the stanchions,

uprights or posts are constructed of stones-or bricks, theconstructioninethod is slightly changed. First theiposts are built. upto the elevation'of the under side of'the upper tier, then the panels,plates, tiles ormats are fixed with proper meansto the posts. Theinsulating filling material is filled and the tier or sill constructedas described above. The slabs 14: are omitted. process is continuedthroughout the entire wall structure and, when the point is reachedwhere a flooring is to be laid, girders or floor beams may beconstructed and interlocked with the wall structure as follows: 1

The proper scaffolding and form-plates having been set in position, amold-box ismade'to extend between opposite walls, and plates 1,provided-with the necessary cut-out portions or recesses 6 having beenbuilt into'the wall structure, cement is filled into the girderform-box,reinforcing rods, bars or wires'27 laid and embeddedthereim and torundown intojand *c'ooper'ate with, the

ty, and the independent'elements0f which are This extended intofthesp-ace through theaper 7' turesz6 between the innerand outerwalls, Whenthe nexttier of 1 wall stri'icture' is a set up,"* "tl1e filling'for theuprights-or stanichion's between {slabs or boards 14 isallowed fillingin the girdermold-boxes, thus form ing a bond or union betweentheuprights very-rigidland substantial fabric may be constructe'ch-whichmay be-either inside or 4 outside walls, housings of various kinds, and'providedfwithall the necessary angles, dependent upon'thes'itegorthesurroundings. 7

Heat and coldi and water-proof; walls'are thus'constructed'which aredurable, strong, i quickly constructed with considerable facilicheapand' economical to produce} A skilled, workman 1snot're'qu1red,js1nce*one oford nary intelligence can be-quicklyinstructed 7 howto manipulate and usethe various ele-' ments, thusdoing' away with -highfgrade *1'00 labor, as wellas' the inconvenlence'and difficultics often experienced in obtaining, the

latter. I i The panels or wall plates are also 1 quickly fabricatedand'may -be made ofany material desired, {ornamental orotherwisej foreither lnterior or 'exterlor decorations, and they 7 maybe made of suchmat'erlals as vw ll readily takepaints stains, and other=eolor *ingmatter, and-'Whichare 'susceptrble of llQ various decorations; I 7

I have ln'the foregoing referred-to-Vthe reinforcement media 3 and 4 forthe wall-7;

plates orpanels as wires, rods or bars; but, I

by this I do not desire to impose a limita- 1 1 tion as to material,since the plates or panels can be reinforced by reeds or other-similarstrips embedded as described, and'the eyes 5 formed in the ends of shortwires incor- 'poratedsuitably in the plates. As stated 12o,

above the panels or plates may be'replaced by a tile-slab, a slabcomposedoof tiles, meshes orv mats covered with stucco or plaster andfixed to the framework. 1

Having thus described -my invention, 1

What I clai nd' desire t'o g y Let 's Patent is: i

1. The'building construction-method de-- scribed hereinconsistiriginassembling a1 pluralityvof parallel wall-'p'latesx-orpanels 1 7 in end-on-end relation; temporarily securing opposed platestogether; setting in place a plurality of pairs of stanchion panels inspaced apart relation set on end between the wall-plates; filling thechamber between the wall-plates and stanchion panels with insulatingmaterial; and filling in between the stanchion panels and on top of theinsulating material with reinforced cement.

2. The building construction method described herein consistinginassembling a plurality of similar wall-panels arranged in parallelalignment and in end-on-end relation; temporarily fastening opposed wallpanels together; setting in place stanchion panels so as to embrace thetemporary fastening means; filling in the chambers between panels andstanchion plates with insulating material; and filling in between thestanchion plates and capping the insulating material with cement wherebyto embed the temporary fastening means.

3. The building construction method described herein consisting inassembling a plurality of;w-all panels in parallel alignment andend-on-end relation; temporarily fastening the panels together;inserting stanchion plates between the panels at the points ofconnection between the latter;

filling the chamber formed by the stanchions and panels with insulatingmaterial; filling in the chamber between the stanchion plates withreinforced cement; and simultaneously applying to the insulatingmaterial a reinforced capping layer of cement.

AA fabricated wall structure composed of rectangular parallel wallpanelswith a plurality of stanchion plates interposed between said wallpanels at predetermined intervals, forming wide cavities between opposedfaces of the stanchions and narrow cavities between the other faces ofthe cavities, an insulating filler contained between the larger of saidcavities formed by the panels and stanchions, said filler rising to apoint adjacent the top thereof, reinforced concrete contained betweenthe stanchion:

plates forming the lesser of said cavities and also filling the spacebetween the filler and the top of the plates and stanchions, that is tosay, to the level of the plane at the top of the plates and stanchions,said in sulating filling and the concrete filling alternatinglongitudinally of the Wall, said reinforced concrete overlying aplurality of said ections of the wall substantially as and for thepurposesspecified. Y

5. A fabricated structure composed of rectangular panel plates havinginterlocking grooves arranged in end-on-end relation and in parallelism,in combination with Stanchion plates, insulating filling and reinforcedcement, the latter extending between stanchion plates and capping theinsulating material. 7

6. A fabricated structure comprising walls at a rightangle to each otherand composed of parallel, spaced apart panels, said panels beingalternately long and short and arranged in cooperative relation such asto produce an angular chamber; stanchion, plates interposed between thepanelsv and arranged to close the opposite ends of the angular chamber;and reinforced cement filled into the angular chamber whereby to producean angle in a fabricated structure. 7

Roar. B. MACATEE, WM. DE Connor.

